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LAWS AND REGULATIONS 



RELATING TO THE 



HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION 



HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 



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THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 





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LAWS AND REGULATIONS 



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Laws: Pafe& 

Extract from act of April 20, 1832, reserving the hot springs in the Territory 
of Arkansas, together with four sections of land, for the future disposal of 
the United States 5 

Act of June 11, 1870, in relation to the Hot Springs Reservation 5 

Act of March 3, 1877, in relation to the Hot Springs Reservation 7 

Act of December 16, 1878, to correct an error of enrollment in bill making 
appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal 
year 1879, and for other purposes 10 

Act of June 16, 1880, for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and 

for other purposes 11 

Extract from the army appropriation act of June 30, 1882, relative to the 
erection of an Army and Navy Hospital upon the Hot Springs Reserva- 
tion : 13 

Joint resolution of March 3, 1887, authorizing the use of hot water off the 

Government reservation at Hot Springs 13 

Act of July 8, 1882, authorizing sale of certain lots in city of Hot Springs, 

Ark., to the Women's Christian National Library Association 14 

Act of October 19, 1888, granting right of way for construction ol' a railroad 
through the Hot Springs Reservation 14 

Joint resolution of March 26, 1888, to enable the Secretary of the Interior 
to utilize waste hot water on the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, 
and for other purposes 15 

Act of March 3, 1891, to regulate the granting of leases at Hot Springs, and 
for other purposes 16 

Act of June 22, 1892, to include lot 53, block 89, at Hot Springs, in the pub- 
lic reservation 18 

Act of July 14, 1892, to grant lot 1, block 72, to school district of city of Hot 

Springs 19 

Extract from the sundry civil act of August 5, 1892. making appropriation 
for the Hot Springs Reservation 19 

Act of December 21, 1893, granting right of way for construction of a rail- 
road and other improvements on West Mountain 19 

Act of June 21, 1894, granting the use of certain lands on Hot Springs Reser- 
vation to the Barry Hospital 20 

Act of August 7, 1894, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant 
leases for sites, on the Hot Springs Reservation, for cold-water reservoirs. . 21 

A<t of August 9, 1894, authorizing the sale of lot 8, block 93, city of Hot 
Springs, by school directors, and use of proceeds for school purposes 21 

Act of August 11, 1894, for the relief of Henry James 22 

Act of February 15, 1896, to extend the time for completion of incline rail- 
way on West Mountain 22 

Act of March 19, 1898, relating to leases on the Hot Springs Reservation, 
and for other purposes 22 

Act of May 9, 1898, authorizing Knights of Pythias to erect a sanitarium 
and bath house on the Government reservatii m 22 

Act of February 10. 1900, to amend section 4 of the act of June 16, 1880, 
granting certain lands to city of Hot Springs for a park, and for other pur- 
poses 23 

Act of March 26. 1900, to extend the time for completion of incline railway 
on West Mountain 24 

Extract from the sundry civil act of March 3. 1901. to determine the value 
of buildings condemned by the Hot Springs Commission and afterwards 
destroyed by fire 24 

Act of January 30, 1903, to extend the time for completion of incline rail- 
way on West Mountain 25 

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Laws — Continued. Pa = e - 

Act of legislature cf Arkansas, ceding jurisdiction to the United States over 
a part of the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, approved Februarv 21, 
1903 25 

Act of April 12, 1904, to amend the act of December 16, 1878, authorizing 
the Secretary of the Interior to grant additional water rights to hotels and 
bath houses at Hot Springs, and for other purposes 26 

Act of April 20, 1904, conferring jurisdiction upon United States commis- 
sioners over offenses committed in a portion of the permanent Hot 
Springs Mountain Reservation J 26 

Act of May 23, 1906, changing the line of the reservation at Hot Springs and 
of Reserve avenue 29 

Act of March 2, 1907, to amend the act of April 20, 1904, conferring juris- 
diction upon United States commissioners over offenses committed in a 
portion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation 29 

Act of legislature of Arkansas, for the protection of passengers and for the 
suppression of drumming and soliciting upon railroad trains and premises 
of common carriers, approved April 30, 1907 30 

Ordinance of city of Hot Springs, to prevent frauds being committed upon 
persons desiring to get the benefit of the baths of the hot waters of the 
United States Hot Springs Reservation, approved August 9. 1907 31 

Ordinance of city of Hot Springs, for the protection of public parks, ap- 
proved June 4, 1896 32 

Rules and regulations: 

Regulations for government of all bath houses, issued February 1, 1908 ... 33 

Application for registration of physicians, under the above regulations 36 

Regulations for government of the Free Bath House, issued July 7, 1900. . . 37 

Application for baths at the Free Bath House, under the above regulations. 38 
General legislation: 

Section 5391, Revised Statutes, providing for prosecutions under State 
laws where no Federal laws are applicable 39 

Act of July 7, 1898, vesting jurisdiction for trial of offenses under the pre- 
ceding section 39 

Act of March 3, 1875, providing penalties for cutting timber on reserved 

lands, destroying fences, driving live stock, etc 39 

Act of June 3, 1878. as amended by act of August 4, 1892, providing pen- 
alty for cutting timber on lands of United States in public-land States. . 40 

Act of June 10, 1896, providing penalty for changing or removing survey 
marks 41 

Act of February 6, 1905, providing for arrests by National Park and Forest 

employees for violations of laws and regulations 41 

Appropriations : 

Statement of appropriations from 1877 to 1908 42 

Amount of expenditures for the Army and Navy Hospital by War Depart- 
ment -13 

Recapitulation of all appropriations and expenditures to December 31, 

1907 44 



LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE HOT SPRINGS 
RESERVATION, ARK. 



IiAWS.a 
ACT OF APRIL 20, 1832 (4 STAT., 505). 

Extract from the act of April 20, 1832 (4 Stat., 505), entitled: 

"AN ACT Authorizing the governor of the Territory of Arkansas to lease the salt 
springs, in said territory, and for other purposes." 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the hot springs, in said 
territory, together with four sections of land including said springs, 
as near the centre thereof as may be, shall be reserved for the future 
disposal of the United States, and shall not be entered, located, or 
appropriated, for any other purpose whatever. 

ACT OF JUNE ii, 1870 (16 STAT., 149). 
AN ACT In relation to the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That any person claiming 
title, either legal or equitable, to the whole or any part of the four 
sections of land constituting what is known as the Hot Springs res- 
ervation in Hot Springs county, in the State of Arkansas, may institute 
against the United States in the court of claims, and prosecute to final 
decision, any suit that may be necessary to settle the same: Provided, 
That no such suits shall be brought at any time after the expiration of 
ninety days from the passage of this act, and all claims to any part of 
said reservation upon which suit shall not be brought under the pro- 
visions of this act within that time shall be forever barred. 

Sec 2. And be it further t nacted, That all such suits shall be by 
petition in the nature of a bill in equity, and shall be conducted and 
determined in all respects, except as herein otherwise provided, 
according to the rules and principles of equity practice and juris- 
prudence in the other courts of the United States; and for the pur- 
poses of this act the court of claims is hereby invested with the 
jurisdiction and powers exercised by courts of equity so far as may be 
necessary to give full relief in any suit which may be instituted under 
the provisions of this act. 

Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That notice of every suit author- 
ized by this act shall be executed by the delivery of a true copy thereof 
with a copy of the petition to the Attorney-General, whose duty it 
shall be, for and in behalf of the United States, to demur to or answer 

a Unless otherwise noted the laws are Federal statutes. 



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the petition therein, within thirty days after the service of such 
process upon him, unless the court shall for good cause shown grant 
further time for filing the same. 

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if two or more parties claim- 
ing the same lands under different rights shall institute separate 
suits under the provisions of this act, such suits shall be consolidated 
and tried together, and the court shall determine the question of 
title and grant all proper relief as between the respective claimants 
as well as between each of them and the United States. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if, upon the final hearing 
of any cause provided for in this act, the court shall decide in favor 
of the United States, it shall order such lands into the possession of a 
receiver to be appointed by the court, who shall take charge of and 
rent out the same for the United States, until Congress shall by law 
direct how the same shall be disposed of, which said receiver shall 
execute a sufficient bond to be approved by the court, conditioned 
for the faithful performance of his duties as such, render a strict 
account of the manner in which he shall have discharged said duties, 
and of all moneys received by him as a receiver as aforesaid, which 
shall be by said court approved or rejected accordingly as it may be 
found correct or not, and pay such moneys into the treasury of the 
United States; and he shall receive such reasonable compensation 
for his services as said court may allow, and in case of a failure of said 
receiver to discharge any duty devolving upon him as such, the court 
shall have power to enforce the performance of the same by rule and 
attachment. But if the court shall decide in favor of any claimant, 
both as against the United States and other claimants, it shall so 
decree, and proceed by proper process to put such successful claimant 
in possession of such portion thereof as he may be thus found to be 
entitled to, and upon the filing of a certified copy of such decree 
with the Secretary of the Interior, he shall cause a patent to be 
issued to the party in whose favor such decree shall be rendered 
for the lands therein adjudged to him: Provided, That either party 
may within ninety days after the rendition of any final judgment 
or decree in any suit authorized by this act, carry such suit by appeal 
to the Supreme Court of the United States, which court is hereby 
vested with full jurisdiction to hear and determine the same on such 
appeal, in the same manner and with the same effect as in cases of 
appeal in equity causes from the circuit courts of the United States: 
And provided further, That in case the judgment or decree of the 
court of claims in any such suit shall be adverse to the United States, 
the Attorney-General shall prosecute such appeal within the time 
above prescribed; and the taking of an appeal from any such judg- 
ment or decree shall operate as a supersedeas thereof until the final 
hearing and judgment of the Supreme Court thereon. 

J. G. Blaine, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Schuyler Colfax, 

Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. 
Received by the President, May 31, 1870. 

Note by the Department of State. — The foregoing act having been presented to 
the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by 
him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the 
Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval. 



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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1877 (19 STAT., 377). 
AN ACT In relation to the Hot Springs Reservation in the State of Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of section five 
of an act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, in rela- 
tion to the Hot Springs Reservation of Arkansas, as provides for the 
appointment of a receiver by the court, be, and the same is hereby, 
repealed: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed 
to affect the right of the United States to collect and receive rents 
already due. 

Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the President of the United 
States upon the passage of this act, to appoint three discreet, com- 
petent, and disinterested persons, who shall constitute a board of 
commissioners, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, who are 
hereby authorized to perform and discharge the duties specified 
by this act, and for that purpose shall meet at Hot Springs, in the 
State of Arkansas, within thirty days after their appointment, and 
shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, subscribe 
to the usual oath for civil officers, and shall, at their first meeting, 
organize by the election of one of their number as chairman of the 
board, having given ten days' notice of the time and place of meeting 
in some daily paper published at Hot Springs, which notice shall be 
continued during the entire session of said board of commissioners, 
and all the evidence herein provided to be taken by said board shall 
be taken at Hot Springs. 

Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, after 
examination of the topography of the reservation, to lay out into 
convenient squares, blocks, lots, avenues, streets, and alleys, the lines 
of which shall correspond with the existing boundary lines of occu- 
pants of said reservation as near as may be consistent with the 
interests of the United States, the following-described lands, to-wit : 
The south half of section twenty-eight, the south half of section 
twenty-nine, all of sections thirty-two and thirty-three, in township 
two south and range nineteen west; and the north half of section 
four, the north half of section five, in township three south and 
range nineteen west, situate in the county of Garland, and State 
of Arkansas, and known as the Hot Springs Reservation. 

Sec. 4. That before making any subdivision of said lands, as 
described in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of said board 
of commissioners, under the direction anjd subject to the approval 
of the Secretary of the Interior, to designate a tract of land included 
in one boundary, sufficient in extent to include, and which shall 
include all the hot or warm springs situate on the lands aforesaid, to 
embrace, as near as may be, what is known as Hot Springs Mountain, 
and the same is hereby reserved from sale, and shall remain under 
the charge of a superintendent, to be appointed by the Secretary 
of the Interior: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall 
prevent the Secretary of the Interior from fixing a special tax on 
water taken from said springs, sufficient to pay for the protection 
and necessary improvement of the same. 

Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners to show 
by metes and bounds on the map herein provided for, the parcels or 
tracts of lands claimed by reason of improvements made tliereon or 

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occupied by each and every such claimant and occupant on said 
reservation; to hear any and all proof offered by such claimants and 
occupants and the United States in respect to said lands and in respect 
to the improvements thereon; and to finally determine the right of 
each claimant or occupant to purchase the same, or any portion 
thereof, at the appraised value, which shall be fixed by said commis- 
sioners: Provided, however, That such claimants and occupants shall 
file their claims, under the provisions of this act, before said com- 
missioners within six calendar months after the first sitting of the 
said board of commissioners, or their claims shall be forever barred; 
and no claim shall be considered which has accrued since the twenty- 
fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. 

Sec. 6. That the said commissioners shall have power to compel 
the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers touching 
the occupancy or improvements of or on said lands, or any other 
matter in any wise belonging or appertaining either to the said lands 
or the improvements thereon; shall have power to examine under 
oath all witnesses that may come before them, and all testimony 
shall be reduced to writing, and preserved as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 7. That the said commissioners shall have power to remove, 
or cause to be removed, all buildings or obstructions upon the said 
Hot Springs Reservation when the same may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of this act, as also all obstructions to streets, alle3 T s 
or roads, to be laid off, straightened or widened as herein provided 
for. 

Sec. 8. That the commissioners shall have power to straighten 
or widen any of the present streets or alleys in the town of Hot 
Springs, and to lay off such additional streets, alleys, and roads in 
said Hot Springs Reservation, or in the town, before the sale or 
disposition of any of the property herein mentioned, as the convenience 
of the public and the interest of the United States may require, and 
for that purpose may condemn all buildings that they may find neces- 
sary to condemn in order to straighten or widen said streets and 
alleys, or to lay off new streets, alleys, and roads, and also all build- 
ings or improvements on the reservation herein made, and to fix the 
value on all property thus condemned. 

Sec. 9. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, without 
delay, to file in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, the map 
and survey herein provided for, with the boundary lines of each 
claim clearly marked thereon, and with each division and subdi- 
vision traced and numbered, accompanied by a schedule, showing the 
name of each claimant, and of each lot or parcel of land, the appraised 
value thereof, numbers to correspond with such claim upon the map; 
also all of the evidence taken by them respecting the claimants' pos- 
sessory right of occupation to any portion of the Hot Springs Reser- 
vation and their findings in each case; also their appraisal of each 
tract or parcel of land, and the improvements thereon; and it shall 
be the duty of said commissioners to issue a certificate to each claim- 
ant, setting forth the amount of land the holder is entitled to pur- 
chase, and the valuation fixed thereon, and also showing the char- 
acter and the valuation fixed upon the improvements of said tract 
or parcel of land, and to issue a certificate or certificates to all per- 
sons whose improvements are condemned, as herein provided, show- 
ing the value of said improvements. 



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Sec. 10. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Inte- 
rior, within thirty days after said commissioners file said report 
and map in his of lice, to instruct the United States land-officers of 
Little Rock (Arkansas) land district to allow said lands to be entered 
as hereinafter provided, and to cause a patent to issue therefor; and 
it shall be the duty of the land officers authorized to sell said lands 
to give twenty days public notice in the Little Hock and Hot Springs 
newspapers that said lands are subject to entry in accordance with 
the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 11. That any claimant or occupant, his heirs or legal repre- 
sentatives, in whose favor said commissioners have adjudicated, shall, 
under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 
prescribe, have the sole right to enter and pay for, at the price fixed 
by said commissioners, the amount of land the commissioners had 
adjudged that they were entitled to purchase, at any time within 
twelve months next after the land-officers give . the public notice 
herein required. 

Sec. 12. That upon the failure of any claimant or occupant in whose 
favor the commissioners have adjudged to pay the valuation fixed 
upon said land within the time and in the manner herein prescribed, 
then said lands, together with all other lands that no one has an 
adjudicated right to purchase under this act, shall be sold, by direc- 
tion of the Secretary of the Interior, to the highest bidder at public 
sale for not less than the appraised value thereof at the land office at 
Little Rock, after notice of such sale has been advertised three months 
in some newspaper in the town of Hot Springs and in such other 
papers as he may designate, said lands and improvements to be sold 
together; and the proceeds arising from the sale thereof shall be paid 
to the receiver of public moneys at the land-office in Little Rock, 
Arkansas. 

Sec. 13. That any claimant or occupant who does not desire to 
purchase the lands adjudicated to him or her at the valuation fixed 
by said commissioners shall have the right to remove- any improve- 
ments made on said land, at his or her own cost, before the time fixed 
for the payment for said lands. 

Sec. 14. That the money arising from the sale of the lands shall be 

f>aid into the Treasury in the same manner as other moneys arising 
rom the sale of public lands, and held for the purpose herein specified 
and at the further disposal of Congress; and the money arising from 
water-rents shall be under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, 
and expended by him for the purposes hereinbefore stated, an account 
of which shall be annually rendered to Congress, showing the amount 
received, the amount expended, and the amount remaining on hand 
at the end of each fiscal year. 

Sec. 15. That the United States marshal for the judicial district of 
Arkansas, in which the Hot Springs may be situated shall execute all 
processes required to be executed by this act. 

Sec. 16. That said commissioners shall hold their offices for the 
period of one year from the date of appointment, and shall have power 
to employ competent engineers to make the maps and surveys herein 
provided for, at a reasonable compensation; to employ a stenogra- 
pher, who shall also act as clerk, at a compensation of not more than 
eight dollars per day, to rent an office and purchase the necessary 
stationery; and the compensation of said commissioners shall be ten 



10 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION.- 

dollars per day each, all of which shall be paid by the Secretary of the 
Interior upon the certified vouchers of said commissioners. 

Sec. 17. That the right of way be and the same is hereby, granted 
to the Hot Springs Railroad Company, a company duly incorporated 
and organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, to construct, 
maintain, and operate its line of railroad upon, over, and across the 
Hot Springs Reservation in the State of Arkansas, as follows: 

Commencing on the east line of the south half of section thirty- 
three, in township two south of the base line, in range nineteen west 
of the fifth principal meridian, in the county of Garland, and State of 
Arkansas, at a point about six hundred feet from the southeast corner 
of said section; thence running up a ravine parallel to and south of the 
Benton wagon-road, westwardly through said section, to a point where 
the same will intersect with the Malvern stage-road at a point south 
of the grave-yard on said Reservation. 

Sec. 18. The right of way hereby granted shall consist of a strip of 
land fifty feet wide on each side of said railroad, measured from the 
centre line thereof, from the point on the east line of said section of 
land where said railroad enters the same to the terminus of the track 
of said road: Provided, That said railway company may purchase 
upon the same terms as individuals land for shops, depots, and other 
purposes, not exceeding twenty acres: Provided, however, That Con- 
gress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this section. 

Sec. 19. That a suitable tract of land, not exceeding five acres 
shall be laid off by saijd commissioners, and the same is hereby granted 
to the county of Garland in the State of Arkansas as a site for the 
public building of said county: Provided, That the tract of land 
hereby granted shall not be taken from the land reserved herein for 
the use of the United States. 



ACT OF DECEMBER 16, 1878 (20 STAT., 258). 

AN ACT To correct an error of enrollment in bill making appropriations for sundry 
civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 
hundred and "seventy-nine, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the sumof twenty- 
seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may 
be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay for clerk hire, engi- 
neering, marshal's fees, salaries, and other expenses of the Hot 
Springs Commission; and the President of the United States be, and 
he is hereby, authorized to appoint with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, three discreet, competent, and disinterested persons, who 
shall constitute a board of commissioners, any two of whom shall con- 
stitute a quorum, who shall hold their offices for the period of one 
year from the date of their appointment, and shall have the same 
powers and authority in all respects as was provided for the com- 
missioners appointed under the act of Congress approved March 
third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act in rela- 
tion to the Hot Springs reservation in the State of Arkansas" ; which 
act is hereby revived and continued in full force for the purpose of 
enabling said board of commissioners to take possession of all rec- 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. H 

ords, papers, and proofs, and to determine the claims presented to 
the board of commissioners appointed under said act, whose term of 
office has expired, and to do and perform all other acts and duties 
authorized b} 7 " said act. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 
directed to lease to the present proprietors of the Arlington Hotel 
or their assigns the grounds, not exceeding one acre, now occupied 
by them, for a period of ten years, unless otherwise provided by 
law, at an annual rental of one thousand dollars. And he is further 
directed to lease the bath-houses of a permanent nature now upon 
the Hot Springs reservation to the owners of the same, and lease to 
any person or persons upon such terms as may be agreed on, sites 
for the building of other bath-houses for the term of five years, unless 
otherwise provided by law, under such rules and regulations as he 
may prescribe ; and the tax imposed shall not exceed fifteen dollars 
per tub per annum, including land rent: Provided, That said leases 
shall in no way prejudice any legal right that any person or persons 
may have acquired under the act hereby revived and continued, to 
any improvements on said ground : And provided further, That to 
prevent monopoly, no bath-house or hotel shall be supplied with 
more than enough water for fort}' bath-tubs of the usual size, unless 
there shall be more than enough hot-water to supply all other 
demands for the same, in which case no single establishment shall 
be allowed more than forty bath-tubs of the usual size: And 'pro- 
vided further, That the spuerintendent shall provide and maintain 
a sufficient number of free baths for the use of the indigent, and the 
expense thereof shall be defrayed out of the rentals hereinbefore pro- 
vided for. 

In cases where fractions of lots are made by straightening, widen- 
ing or laying out streets, the commissioners shall have power to 
determine the disposal of the same, giving the preference to the 
owners of abutting lots: Provided, That all titles given or to be given 
by the United States shall explicitly exclude the right to the pur- 
chaser of the land, his heirs or assigns, from ever boring thereon for 
hot water; and the Hot Springs, with the reservation and mountain 
are hereby dedicated to the United States, and shall remain forever 
free from sale or alienation. 



ACT OF JUNE i6, 1880 (21 STAT., 288). 
AN ACT For the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tJie United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That any person, his 
heirs or legal representatives, in whose favor the commissioners 
appointed under the acts of Congress of eighteen hundred and sev- 
enty-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, relative to the 
Hot Springs of Arkansas, have adjudicated, shall have the sole right 
to enter and pay for the amount oif land the commissioners may have 
adjudged him entitled to purchase, within eighteen months next 
after the expiration of the notice required by the tenth section of the 
act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, 
to be given by paying to the receiver of public moneys at the land- 
office in Little Rock, Arkansas, forty per centum of the assessed 
value of said land as placed thereon by said commissioners; and 



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that such assessments be reduced to that extent: and that in any 
cases where any church or church association has been adjudged 
entitled to purchase land it may do so by paying five dollars per lot. 

Sec. 2. That the certificates (except certificate Number one hun- 
dred and sixty-two, issued to Samuel H. Stitt, De Witt C. Rugg, and 
Samuel W. Fordyce for twenty-two thousand dollars, which excep- 
tions shall not prejudice the rights of the United States or the holders 
of said certificate), issued for condemned buildings by said commis- 
sioners be made receivable for the amounts named therein as so many 
dollars lawful money of the United States in the entry and purchase of 
the lands that may be sold in the Hot Springs Reservation; and that 
such certificates be assignable, and when assigned in the presence of 
two subscribing witnesses or the execution of the assignment thereof 
shall have been acknowledged before a court of record or clerk thereof, 
the land officers in like manner shall receive them from the assignee in 
payment of lands purchased by himself or others; and in case the 
amount of the certificate presented and received at such land-office 
shall exceed that necessary to make the purchase and entry desired, 
there shall be executed by the register and receiver, and delivered to 
the person from whom the same is received, a certificate giving the 
number of the original, the date and amout thereof, the balance due 
such person thereon, and the certificate thus issued shall be assignable 
and receivable in like manner as the original, and in all cases where 
such certificates are issued the register of the land office shall certify 
on the original certificate taken up, the number of the lots purchased 
therewith, and the price thereof. 

Sec. 3. That those divisions of the Hot Springs Reservation, known 
as the mountainous districts, not divided by streets on the maps made 
by the commissioners, but known and defined on the map and in the 
report of the commissioners as North Mountain, West Mountain, and 
Sugar Loaf Mountain, be, and the same are hereby forever reserved 
from sale, and dedicated to public use as parks, to be known, with Hot 
Springs Mountain, as the permanent reservation. 

Sec. 4. That whenever the town of Hot Springs shall procure else- 
where a suitable burying-ground and shall cause the bodies now buried 
in the cemetery lot, within the limits of said town, to be decently 
removed and reinterred, the title to said cemetery lot shall vest in the 
corporation of said town, to be held and used forever as a town or city 
park, and not otherwise. 

Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to 
designate six lots from the unawarded grounds on the Hot Springs 
Reservation for the use of the common schools of the corporation of 
the town of Hot Springs, as sites for schoolhouses, and the lots when so 
designated are hereby dedicated to the use of common schools, and 
shall be used, controlled, and managed by the common school officials 
of the district in which they may be located for such purposes only. 
The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to convey to the Bap- 
tist Church of Hot Springs, whose church edifice was destroyed by fire, 
a suitable lot of ground not exceeding one-eighth of an acre from that 
portion of the Hot Springs Reservation laid off into lots and blocks, 
and forming part of the town site but not awarded to any claimants 
and not otherwise disposed of b} r this act said conveyance to be on 
consideration of the payment of a sum equal to ten dollars per acre for 
said lot. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 13 

Sec. 6. That the streets, courts, and alleys and other thoroughfares 
of the town of Hot Springs, as surveyed, opened, or established by the 
commissioners and represented on the map of said town, and not 
included in the permanent reservation, be, and the same are hereby, 
ceded to the corporation of the town of Hot Springs for public use: 
Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 
impair the rights or equities conferred upon claimants to said land by an 
act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
seven, and an act approved December sixteenth eighteen hundred and 
seventy-eight, in relation to the Hot Springs reservation in the State 
of Arkansas. 

Sec. 7. That that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation laid oil into 
lots and blocks and forming part of the town site, but not awarded to 
any claimants, and not otherwise disposed of or reserved by this act, 
shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, at not less than its 
appraised value, to be made from time to time, at the discretion and 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and after public 
notice in the usual waj^ in the sale of public lands; and the mone} r aris- 
ing from said sales, as well as any money paid in under section one of 
this act, shall be held as a special fund for the improvement and care of 
the permanent reservation at Hot Springs and of the Hot Springs 
Creek adjacent to and between the permanent reservations, and for 
the maintenance of free baths for the invalid poor of the United States, 
as provided by acts of Congress. 



FROM THE ARMY APPROPRIATION ACT OF JUNE 30, 1882 (22 

STAT., 121). 

******* 

Provided, That one hundred thousand dollars be, and hereby is, 
appropriated for the erection of an Army and Navy hospital at Hot 
Springs, Arkansas, which shall be erected by and under the direction 
of the Secretary of War, in accordance with plans and specifications to 
be prepared and submitted to the Secretary of War by the Surgeons- 
General of the Army and Navy; which hospital, when in a condition 
to receive patients, shall be subject to such rules, regulations, and re- 
strictions as shall be provided by the President of the United States: 
Provided further, That such hospital shall be erected on the govern- 
ment reservation at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas. 



JOINT RESOLUTION OF MARCH 3, 1887 (24 STAT., 647). 

JOINT RESOLUTION To authorise the use of hot water off the Government 
Reservation at Hot Springe; Arkansas. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
Interior be and he is hereby authorized to continue to furnish to the 
bath houses located off the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, a sufficient amount of hot water for drinking and bathing 
purposes: Provided, That furnishing such bath houses shall in no way 



14 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

interfere with the supply of hot water necessary for the use of the 
Arnry and Navy Hospital, and for the bath houses located upon the 
permanent reservation subject to any further action of Congress on 
the subject. 

ACT OF JULY 8, 1882 (22 STAT., 155). 

AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain lots in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
to the Woman's Christian National Library Association. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Woman's Chris- 
tian National Library Association, incorporated under the laws 
of the State of Arkansas, be authorized and entitled to enter and pur- 
chase within six months next after the passage of this act, for the uses 
and purposes of such association, lots numbered eleven and twelve in 
block numbered one hundred and twenty-seven, in the city of Hot 
Springs, Arkansas, now subject to sale under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Interior, by paying to the receiver of public moneys, 
at the land office at Little Rock, Arkansas, the assesed value of said 
lots as placed thereon by the commissioners appointed under the acts 
of Congress of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen 
hundred and seventy-eight. 



ACT OF OCTOBER 19, 1888 (25 STAT., 609). 

AN ACT Granting the right of way for the construction of a railroad through the 
Hot Springs Reservation, State of Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejjresentatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way is hereby 
granted to the Mountain View Railway Company, of Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, incorporated under the laws of the State of Arkansas, be- 
ginning at such point east of the line of the bath houses, between the 
Army and Navy Hospital and the Arlington Hotel as the Secretary of 
the Interior may approve, thence by the most eligible route to the 
east line of Hot Springs Mountain, thence westerly down North Moun- 
tain and West Mountain to the west line of reservation. 

Sec. 2. That the right of way hereby granted shall not exceed 
thirty feet in width, and no part of the right of way herein granted 
shall in any way interfere with or obstruct the full flow of the hot waters, 
or be so located as to cause the United States Government, or any 
citizen thereof, any expense of any kind or character, save and except 
the projectors of said road, its heirs and assigns. 

Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the United States Government's 
superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation to see that said railway, 
to be constructed under this act, shall not obstruct or in any manner 
interfere with the springs, hot-water pipes, roads or paths now existing 
or contemplated to be located upon said reservation, but it shall be 
made safe and secure for the pleasure, comfort, and edification of-the 
patrons of the same, and used for the conveyance of passengers only. 

Sec. 4. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to abridge 
the right of the city government of Hot Springs to control and regu- 
late the privileges of the Mountain View Railway where the same may 
cross Central avenue in said city. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 15 

Sec. 5. That the Mountain View Railway Company shall have the 
right to construct observatories at different eligible locations in the 
vicinity of the right of way hereby granted, at such points as the Sec- 
retary of the Interior may approve. 

Sec. 6. That said observatories shall not exceed thirty feet square 
at foundation, and to be built in good and safe manner, and that no 
timber shall be cut upon the mountain, or earth or rock blasted or 
removed, or the surface of the ground in any way defaced, except upon 
the actual roadbed of the said way, and no blasting shall be done on 
Hot Springs Mountain except as authorized by the Secretary of the 
Interior; and that the right of way hereby granted shall be used for 
the purposes herein mentioned and none other: Provided, That this 
grant shall not be construed to abridge the authority of the Secretary 
of the Interior over the portion of the reservation included in the right 
of way. 

Sec. 7. That said company shall cause a map showing the proposed 
route of its line through the reservation to be filed in the office of the 
Secretary of the Interior, and said location shall be approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior before any grading or construction on any 
part of the line shall be begun, and the right of way shall be lost and 
forfeited unless the road is completed and in running order within 
three years after the passage of this act : Provided, That this condition 
as to construction within three years shall be construed as a condition' 
precedent to the grant herein made and in case of failure to so com- 
plete said road as provided, such failure shall, of itself work a forfeiture 
of all rights hereunder. 

Sec. 8. That the company or its assignees to whom this right of way 
is granted, shall annually pay to the Government of the United States 
for the improvement or the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, three per centum of its gross earnings. And Congress 
hereby reserves the right to at any time amend, add to, alter, or repeal 
this act. 



JOINT RESOLUTION OF MARCH 26, 1888 (25 STAT., 619). 

JOINT RESOLUTION To enable the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the hot- 
water now running to waste on the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
and for other purposes. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to utilize the hot- 
water upon the reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, not necessary 
for the Army and Navy Hospital, the bath-houses erected and to be 
erected upon said reservation, and the bath-houses now erected and 
furnished with hot-water by authority of the Secretary off said reserva- 
tion, by permitting its use by not exceeding three bath-houses to be 
erected by individuals below and off said Hot Springs reservation (the 
expense of obtaining said water to be borne by the proprietors of said 
bath-houses), said water to be furnished under the same restrictions 
and regulations as now govern the supply of hot water furnished to the 
bath-houses above and off said reservation, and that the water-rents 
for all bath-houses be increased to thirty dollars per tub per annum: 
Provided, That the new bath-houses which may be so erected shall not 

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16 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

be owned or controlled by any person, company or corporation, which 
may be the owner or interested in any other bath-house on or near the 
Hot Springs Reservation ; and if the ownership or control of any such 
bath-house be transferred to any person or corporation owning or 
interested in any other bath-house on or near said Reservation, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall, for that cause, deprive said bath-house 
of the hot-water, and also any other bath-house in which any such 
person or corporation shall be interested and shall cancel any lease 
from the United States which any such person or corporation may 
hold or be interested in. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891 (26 STAT., 842). 

AN ACT To regulate the granting of leases at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for ether 

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to execute leases to the 
bath-houses and bath house sites on the permanent reservation at 
Hot Springs, Arkansas, for periods not exceeding twenty years, and 
at an annual rental of not less than thirty dollars per tub for each tub 
used in any bath-house. Said annual rental' shall be payable quar- 
terly in advance, at the' office of the Government Superintendent of 
said property, in Hot Springs, Arkansas: Provided, That the same 
rate for water rent shall be charged for the water to all parties receiv- 
ing the same, whether on or off the permanent reservation : Provided, 
That after the Army and Navy Hospital bath-house, the public bath- 
house, the bath-houses which are now or may hereafter be authorized 
on the permanent reservation, the Arlington Hotel, and the bath- 
houses off the permanent reservation now authorized to be supplied 
with hot water, in the order herein named, if there shall still be a sur- 
plus of hot water the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion 
and under such regulations as he may prescribe, cause hot water to be 
furnished to bath-houses, hotels, and families off the permanent reser- 
vation: Provided, That such bath-houses, hotels, and families shall 
cause all connections for obtaining such hot water to be made at their 
own expense: Provided, That all water furnished to any hotel or fam- 
ily for other use than bathing shall be paid for at such reasonable 
price, as shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided fur- 
ther, That the Secreatry of the Interior shall at the expiration of each 
period of five years during the continuance of each lease made here- 
under readjust the terms and amounts of payment provided for 
therein as may be just, but not less than the minimum herein pro- 
vided. 

Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to 
execute a lease of the Arlington Hotel site at Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
to the present lessees for a period of twenty years, and at an annual 
ground rent of two thousand five hundred dollars, for the first five 
years thereof, and at the end of said period of five years, and of each 
period of five }^ears thereafter, he shall readjust and fix the compen- 
sation to be paid during the ensuing five years, but not less than that 
hereinbefore provided for. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 17 

Sec. 3. That all power now possessed by the Secretary of the Inte- 
rior for the regulating of leases of bath-houses, bath-house privileges, 
or hotel rights on the reservation, or as to supplying hot water to 
places off the reservation, is hereby retained and continued in him; 
and full power is vested in the Secretary of the Interior to provide, in 
all leases to be executed against any combination among lessees or 
their assigns, as to ownership, prices, or accommodations at any bath- 
house; full power is also vested in him to make all needful rules and 
regulations as to the use of the hot water, and to prevent its waste, 
including full power to authorize the superintendent of the reserva- 
tion to make examination and inspection at any time of the manner 
of using the hot water at any bath-tub, that it may be used in proper 
quantity only, and to prevent its waste; and also full power to pro- 
vide and fix reasonable maximum charges for all baths, or bathing 
privileges, or services of any person connected with any bath-house 
furnished to bathers; and for reasonable maximum charges to guests 
at the Arlington Hotel; and also, generally, the Secretary of the Inte- 
rior may make all necessary rules and regulations as to said bath 
houses and the service .therein as shall be deemed best for the public 
interest, and to provide penalties for the violation of any regulation 
which may be enforced as though provided by act of Congress. All 
leases and grants of hot-water privileges shall be held to be subject 
to all regulations now in force or which may be hereafter adopted by 
the Secretary of the Interior, and for any violation of any regulation, 
known to the proprietor at the time of the offense, the lease or grant 
may be canceled by the Secretary of the Interior. It shall be ex- 
pressly provided in all leases and grants of privilege for hot water that 
the -bath-house for which provision is made shall not be owned or 
controlled by any person, company, or corporation which may be the 
owner of or interested (as stockholder or otherwise) in any other bath- 
house on or near the Hot Springs Reservation; that neither the hot- 
water privilege granted nor any interest therein, nor the right to oper- 
ate or control said bath-house, shall be assigned or transferred by the 
party of the second part without the approval of the Secretary of the 
Interior first obtained, in writing; and if the ownership or control of 
said bath-house be transferred to any person, company or corporation 
owning or interested in any other bath-house on or near said reserva- 
tion, the Secretary of the Interior may, for that cause, deprive the 
bath-house provided for of the hot water and cancel the lease or 
agreement. All buildings to be erected on the reservation shall be 
on plans first approved by the Secreatry of the Interior, and shall be 
required to be fire proof, as nearly as practicable. 

Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior, before executing any 
lease to bath-houses or bath-house sites on the permanent reseiwa- 
tion or contracts for the use of hot water for bath-houses off the per- 
manent reservation, may make due investigation to ascertain whether 
the person, persons, or corporation applying for such lease or con- 
tract are not, directly or indirectly, interested in any manner what- 
ever in any other bath-house lease, interest, or privilege at or near 
Hot Springs, Arkansas, or whether he or they belong to any pool, 
combination or association so interested, or whether he or they are 
members or stockholders in any corporation so interested, or, if a 
corporation, whether its members or any of them are members or 



18 LAWS EELATING TO HOT SPKINGS RESERVATION". 

stockholders of any other corporation or association interested in 
any other bath-house, lease, interest, or privilege as aforesaid, and in 
order to arrive at the facts in any such case he is authorized to send 
for persons and papers, administer oaths to witnesses, and require 
affidavits from applicants; and any such person making a false oath 
or affidavit in the premises shall be deemed guilty of "perjury, and, 
upon conviction, subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury 
under the statutes of the United States; and whenever, either at the 
time of leasing or other time it appears to the satisfaction of the said 
Secretary that such interest in other bath-house, lease, interest, or 
privilege exists, or at any time any pool or combination exists between 
any two or more bath-houses or he deems it for the best interests of 
the management of the Hot Springs Reservation and waters, or for 
the public interest he may refuse such lease, license, permit or other 
privilege, or forfeit any lease or privilege wherein the parties inter- 
ested have become otherwise interested as aforesaid. 

Sec. 5. That the consent of the United States is hereby given for 
the taxation, under the authority of the laws of the State of Arkan- 
sas applicable to the equal taxation of perspnal property in that 
State, as personal property of all structures and other property in 
private ownership on the Hot Springs Reservation. 

Sec. 6. That the authority heretofore conferred upon the Secre- 
tary of the Interior to collect the hot water upon said reservation 
shall be so construed as to require water to be collected only where, 
such collection is necessary for its proper distribution, and not where 
by gravity the same can be properly utilized. 

Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior may direct the public 
sale of all unsold Government lots on the Hot Springs Reservation, 
and not now permanently reserved at the city of Hot Springs, after 
having had the same reappraised, and also advertised as now required 
by law, and no lot shall be sold at less than the appraised price. 

Sec. 8. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the 
stockholders of any Hotel from operating a bath-house in connec- 
tion with such Hotel as a part thereof. 



ACT OF JUNE 22, 1892 (27 STAT., 58). 

AN ACT To include lot numbered fift> -three in block eighty-nine, at Hot Springs. Ar- 
kansas, in the public reservation at that place. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejiresentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That lot numbered 
fifty-three in block eighty-nine, of the town of Hot Springs, in the 
State of Arkansas, as surveyed and laid out according to an act of 
Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
seven, under the direction and supervision of the Hot Springs com- 
mission, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from sale, and the same 
is hereby declared to be a part of the permanent public reservation 
at Hot Springs, and that it shall be subject to the same laws, rules, 
and regulations that apply to said permanent reservation as now 
defined. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT, SPRINGS RESERVATION. 19 

ACT OF JULY 14, 1892 (27 STAT., 174). 

AN ACT To grant lot numbered one in block numbered seventy-two of the Hot 
Springs Reservation to the school district of the city of Hot Springs for school pur- 
poses. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That lot numbered one in 
block numbered seventy-two of Hot Springs Reservation be, and the 
same is hereby granted and conveyed to the school district of the city 
of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for school purposes. 



FROM THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION ACT OF AUGUST 5, 

1892 (27 STAT., 373). 

S|C 5JJ 3|S -1* Sp 5fS 5j£ 

Hot Springs Reservation: For the improvement, in the discre- 
tion of the Secretary of the Interior, according to suitable plans and 
estimates to be prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Interior, of the Government reserve bordering upon Whittington 
Avenue, on the west branch of Hot Springs Creek, Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, and to have said improvement completed to make said re- 
serve available in part as a reservoir to retain and retard the flood 
waters of said creek, and to put said reserve in a suitable state of 
improvement, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be 
necessary, the same to be paid out of any money that may now or 
hereafter be available from the proceeds of the sales of public lands 
within the Hot Springs, Arkansas, reservation, and that is required, 
by existing law, to be held as a special fund for such improvements as 
may be provided for on Government reservations at said Hot Springs 
by Congress. 



ACT OF DECEMBER 21, 1893 (28 STAT., 21). 

AN ACT Granting the right of way for the construction of a railroad and other im- 
provements over and on the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, Hot 
Springs, Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way forty- 
five feet in width, upon which to construct, equip, operate, and main- 
tain a railroad with one or more tracks, is hereby granted to George 
W. Baxter, John D. Ware, Leslie Webb, and George M. Baxter, their 
associates and assigns, upon and over that part of the Hot Springs 
Reservation known as the West Mountain, as follows: Commencing 
at a point on first line marked Al seven feet east of the line marked M 
on Government plat survey, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for 
topography; thence by a route to be approved by the Secretary of 
the Interior to the boundary line of said West Mountain reservation, 
or as near thereto as shall be necessary, but the said railroad shall 
not obstruct any highway contemplated by the plans for the improve- 
ment of the Government reservation of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and 
the said grantees shall, by the erection and permanent maintenance 



20 LAWS RELATING TO H@T SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

of substantial iron bridges with closed beds and sides, or by means of 
tunnels, avoid rendering the crossings dangerous to passengers on the 
said highways, either in conveyances or on foot: Provided, That such 
road so constructed and this grant shall not interefere with any 
grant within such reservation heretofore made. 

Sec. 2. That the said parties or their assigns shall cause to be made 
an accurate map and profile of the located line of said railway with the 
specifications for the construction thereof, and the same shall be ap- 
proved by and filed with the Secretary of the Interior before the con- 
struction of said railroad shall be commenced. The Secretary of the 
Interior shall have the supervision and control over the location and 
construction of said railroad, which must be built and put in running 
order to the top of said mountain within two years from and after 
the passage of this Act. Each of the conditions in this section shall 
be construed as a condition precedent to the grant herein made, and 
a failure to comply with any of them shall of itself work a forfeiture 
of the rights hereby granted. 

Sec. 3. That the said parties or their assigns shall have the privilege 
of erecting on said West Mountain observatories, hotels, and such 
other buildings as may be considered by the Secretary of the Interior 
desirable for the accommodation of the public, and for such purposes, 
and for laying off and beautifying a park surrounding or adjacent to 
such buildings the said parties or their assigns are hereby privileged 
to use five acres of ground upon said mountain, they agreeing to build 
upon and beautify the same at their own expense. A survey and 
plat of the grounds to be used for the purposes herein mentioned shall 
be first submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved by 
him before any improvements shall be begun upon said land. Plans 
for all buildings shall be submitted to and approved by the Secre- 
tary of the Interior. 

Sec. 4. That the said parties are to pay semiannually to the 
Interior Department, on account of the fund for the improvement of 
the permanent Hot Springs Reservation, the sum of two per centum 
of the gross annual earnings of said railroad and buildings and 
grounds. 

Sec. 5. That all tolls, charges, or income received under or by 
reason of this grant shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary 
of the Interior, who shall from time to time prescribe rules and regula- 
tions for the management of said property. 

Sec. 6. That Congress reserves the right to at any time alter, 
amend, change or repeal the rights and privileges hereby conferred. 



ACT OF JUNE 21, 1894 (28 STAT., 95). 

AN ACT Granting the use of certain lands in the Hot Springs Reservation, in the 
State of Arkansas, to the Barry Hospital. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted to 
the Barry Hospital of the city of Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansas, 
a charity hospital duly organized and chartered under the laws of the 
State of Arkansas, the right to occupy, improve, and control, for the 
purpose of erecting thereon a hospital for the use and benefit of the 



LAWS KELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 21 

poor, and for no other purpose whatever, any of the lots, pieces or 
parcels of land, situate in the county of Garland, and State of Arkansas, 
now owned by the Government of the United States, to be selected 
by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, Said hospital shall not be 
located on the reservation which embraces the Hot Springs: Pro- 
vided, That the United States reserves to itself the fee and the right 
forever to resume possession and occupy any portion of said lands 
whenever in the judgment of the President the exigency arises that 
should require the use and appropriation of the same, or for such 
other disposition as Congress may determine. 



ACT OF AUGUST 7, 1894 (28 STAT., 263). 

AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases for sites on the 
Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, for cold-water reservoirs. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to lease unto the Hot Springs 
Water Company, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, its successors and assigns, 
or to any other person or corporation authorized to supply the city 
of Hot Springs with cold water for drinking and domestic purposes, 
a site upon the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, to 
be selected by him, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining 
thereon a reservoir for cold water and the pipes necessary to connect 
the same with the system of water supply of the city of Hot Springs, 
the term of such lease to be not to exceed twenty years, and the con- 
sideration therefor an annual rental of one hundred dollars, to be 
collected and accounted for as now provided by law in relation to the 
collection and accounting for of revenue derived from leases of bath- 
house sites upon the Hot Springs Reservation : Provided, That on the 
termination of any lease granted under authority of this Act the Secre- 
tary of the Interior shall have like power and authority, in his dis- 
cretion, to extend or renew the same for additional periods of not 
exceeding twenty vears. 



ACT OF AUGUST 9, 1894 (28 STAT., 274). 

AN ACT To authorize sale of lot eight, block ninety-three, city of Hot Springs, by 
school directors thereof, and use of proceeds for school purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the J'n ited 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the directors of the school 
district of the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, are hereby authorized 
to sell and convey, at private or public sale, lot eight, in block ninety- 
three, on Ouchita avenue, in said city, as shown by the survey and 
plat of the United States Commissioners for Hot Springs, heretofore 
designated and set apart by the Secretary of the Interior as a site for 
a schoolhouse under Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred 
and eighty, and to apply the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of 
the common schools of said city. 



22 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

ACT OF AUGUST n, 1894 (28 STAT., 1004). 

AN ACT For the relief of Henry James, residing in the original Hot Springs Reserva- 
tion, in the State of Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Henry James, who has 
improved and resides upon lot four, hi block one hundred and two, 
as designated by the survey and map made by the United States 
commissioners for the Hot Springs Reservation, shall have the right 
to enter and pay for said lot at the land office in Little Rock, Arkan- 
sas, within nmety days next after the passage of this Act, at and for 
the sum of nine hundred dollars. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1896 (29 STAT., 7). 

AN ACT To extend the time for the completion of the incline railway on West 
Mountain, Hot Springs Reservation. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the com- 
pletion of an incline railway upon the West Mountain of the Hot 
Springs Reservation, as provided by Act of Congress approved 
December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is 
hereby extended for the term of three years from and after the pas- 
sage of this Act. 

Sec. 2. That said Act is hereby continued in full force and effect. 



ACT OF MARCH 19, 1898 (30 STAT., 329). 

AN ACT Relating to leases on the Hot Springs Reservation, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
Interior, in addition to his present powers, is hereby authorized, in 
his discretion, to grant leases and privileges to suitable persons to 
construct and maintain observatories, pavilions, refreshment stands, 
upon the Government reservation in the city of Hot Springs, in the 
State of Arkansas, under such rules and regulations as he may pre- 
scribe. 



ACT OF MAY 9, 1898 (30 STAT., 403). 

AN ACT Authorizing the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias to erect and 
maintain a sanitarium and bath house on the Government reservation at the city 
of Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the exclusive right to 
use, occupy, and enjoy the possession of the following-described lot 
of land, being a part of the Government reservation at the city of 
Hot Springs, Arkansas, to-wit, commencing on the north line of 
Reserve avenue at the southeast corner of the Army and Navy 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 23 

Hospital grounds; thence running eastward along the north line of 
Reserve avenue four hundred and sixty-five feet, more or less, to 
United States monument numbered twenty-seven; thence north six 
and one-half degrees west four hundred and seventy feet; thence 
west on a direct line four hundred and fifty-three feet, more or less, 
to the northeast corner of the Army and Navy Hospital grounds; 
thence southward along the east boundary of said Army and Navy 
Hospital grounds five hundred and twenty-live feet to place of begin- 
ning, is by this act granted to the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of 
Pythias, for the purpose of erecting, equipping, and maintaining a 
national sanitarium and bath house for the accommodation of the 
Knights of Pythias of the United States of America. The rights 
and privileges granted under this Act shall continue as long as the 
property is used and occupied for the purposes mentioned in this 
Act, not, however, to exceed ninety-nine years, subject, however, to 
the following conditions and limitations, namely: That unless said 
supreme lodge shall, within five years after the passage of this Act, 
erect and equip a sanitarium and bath house, for the purposes above 
mentioned, at a cost of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars, or if said supreme lodge shall at any time hereafter use or 
permit said premises to be used for any other purpose than that 
herein granted, then, and in either event, all the rights, privileges 
and powers by this Act granted and conferred upon said supreme 
lodge shall be forfeited to the United States. 

Sec. 2. That upon compliance with the conditions and require- 
ments of section one of this Act by said supreme lodge, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall be authorized and required to lease to said 
supreme lodge a sufficient quantity of hot water to accommodate 
said sanitarium for all drinking purposes and to supply at least five 
bath tubs, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; 
and all improvements made upon said property shall be subject to 
the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 10, 1900 (31 STAT., 28). 

AN ACT To amend section four of the Act of Congress approved Jane sixteenth, 
eighteen hundred and eighty, granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, cer- 
tain lands as a city park, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section four of the Act 
of Congress approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, 
granting to the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a parcel of land known 
as the cemetery lot for a city park only, be amended so as to read as 
follows : 

"That whenever the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall relinquish 
to the United States of America all its right, title, and interest in and 
to the following-described lot or parcel of land, being a part of said 
cemetery lot, but which is now described in the plats and surveys of 
said city as lots sixteen, block seventy-eight, to-wit: Commencing 
at the southwest corner of the said city park, in block seventy-eight 
of the Hot Springs Reservation, and formerly known as cemetery 
lot, and running thence easterly along the north line of Benton street 
one hundred and fifty feet; thence northerly two hundred and thirty- 



24 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

five feet to a point on the north line of said park one hundred and 
fifty feet easterly of the northwest corner thereof; thence to said 
northeast corner; thence along the west boundary line of said park 
two hundred and sixty-two and seven-tenths feet to the point of 
beginning, the same being a part of said lot sixteen, in block seventy- 
eight aforesaid, which is hereby reserved by the United States as a 
site for the public building provided for by Act of Congress approved 
March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the right and title 
of the United States to all the remaining part of said cemetery lot, 
now known as lot sixteen, in block seventy-eight, shall vest abso- 
lutely in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for city park, city building, 
auditorium, or other public purposes." 



ACT OF MARCH 26, 1900 (31 STAT., 51). 

AN ACT To extend the . time for the completion of the incline railway on West 
Mountain, Hot Springs Reservation. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the comple- 
tion of an incline railway upon the West Mountain of the Hot Springs 
Reservation, as provided by Act of Congress approved December 
twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby extended 
for the term of three years from and after the passage of this Act, 
and that said Act is hereby continued in full force and effect. 



FROM THE SUNDRY CIVIL ACT OF MARCH 3, 1901 (31 STAT., 1188). 

Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, author- 
ized and directed to determine the value of certain condemned 
buildings formerly located on Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, 
and on the east side of Valley street, in the city of Hot Springs, in the 
State of Arkansas, which buildings were condemned by the Hot 
Springs Commission, and proof of value taken by said commission, 
under authority of law, and which were destroyed by fire on the night 
of the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, before 
said commission had issued certificates for the value thereof, as they 
were authorized and directed, and did afterwards do for buildings 
similarly situated, but not burned. That the value of each building 
so condemned and burned shall be determined by the Secretary from 
the petitions and evidence filed before said commission by the owners 
or occupiers thereof, by order of said commission, and now on file in 
the Interior Department, or such other evidence as the claimants may 
file, and after such investigation as he may think proper. 

Sec. 5. That a sum of money sufficient to pay for such investiga- 
tion and the claims so ascertained and fixed by the Secretary of the 
Interior be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the 
Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to such person or 
persons, claimants, their executors, administrators, the sum or sums 
of money equal to the values so as afpresaid found by him. 

Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior is required to report to 
Congress the results of his action under the foregoing section. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 25 

ACT OF JANUARY 30, 1903 (32 STAT., 788). 

AN ACT To extend the time for the completion of the incline railway on West 
Mountain, Hot Springs Reservation. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for the com- 
pletion of an incline railway upon the West Mountain of the Hot 
Springs Reservation, as provided by Act of Congress approved 
December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and as 
extended by Act of Congress approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen 
hundred, be further extended for the term of one year from and after 
the passage of this Act, and that said original Act, approved Decem- 
ber twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be continued in 
full force and effect. 



ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ARKANSAS, APPROVED FEBRUARY 

21, 1903. 

AN ACT Ceding jurisdiction to the United Stales over a part of the Hot Springs 

Mountain Reservation. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: 
Section 1. That exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the Hot 
Springs Reservation known and described as a part of the Hot 
Springs Mountain and whose limits are particularly described by the 
following boundary lines: Commencing at stone monument number 
(7) seven set upon the west line of Reserve Avenue and marking the 
boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain, and running thence in a 
northwesterly direction to a point upon the south line of Fountain 
Street to a stone monument numbered forty-two (42) and marking 
the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain, thence along the South 
line of Fountain Street to its intersection with Central Avenue or to 
stone monument number thirty-three (33), thence south along the 
east line of Central Avenue to where the same is intersected by Re- 
serve Avenue at stone monument number thirty (30), thence along 
the north boundary line of Reserve Avenue to stone monument number 
seven (7) the point of commencement, all in Township Two South, Range 
nineteen West, in the County of Garland, State of Arkansas, being a 
part of the permanent United States Hot Springs Reservation, is 
hereby ceded and granted to the United States of America to be exer- 
cised so long as the same shall remain the property of the United 
States; provided that this grant of jurisdiction shall not prevent the 
execution of any process of the State, civil or criminal, on any person 
who may be on such reservation or premises; provided further, that 
the right to tax all structures and other property in private owner- 
ship on the Hot Springs Reservation accorded the State by the Act 
of Congress approved March 3d, 1891, is hereby reserved to the State 
of Arkansas. 

John I. Moore, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Joseph L. Short, 

President of the Si note. 



26 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

ACT OF APRIL 12, 1904 (33 STAT., 173). 

AN ACT To amend an act approved December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-eight, and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant additional 
water rights to hotels and bath houses at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for other 
purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the 
Act entitled "An Act to correct an error of enrollment in bill making- 
appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the 
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, 
and for other purposes," approved December sixteenth, eighteen 
hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page 258), 
be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the second pro- 
viso of the same and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 

11 And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and 
he is hereby, authorized to grant to hotels having bath houses at- 
tached, and to bath houses situated on the Hot Springs Reservation, 
as well as in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, the right to install, 
maintain, and use, either in said bath houses or in connection with 
the rooms of said hotels or the bath houses attached to said hotels, as 
many bath tubs as in his discretion he may deem proper and neces- 
sary for the public service and the amount of hot water will justify " 



ACT OF APRIL 20, 1904 (33 STAT., 187). 

AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon United States commissioners over offenses 
committed in a portion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, 
Arkansas. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the portion of the Hot 
Springs Mountain Reservation in the State of Arkansas situated and 
lying within boundaries defined as follows, "Commencing at a stone 
monument numbered seven, set upon the west line of Reserve ave- 
nue and marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain, and 
running thence in a northwesterly direction to a point upon the south 
line of Fountain street to a stone monument numbered forty-two and 
marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain; thence along the 
south line of Fountain street to its intersection with Central avenue or 
to stone monument numbered thirty-three ; thence south along the east 
line of Central avenue to where the same is intersected by Reserve 
avenue at stone monument numbered thirty; thence along the north 
boundary line of reserve avenue to stone monument numbered seven, 
the point of commencement; all in township two south, range nineteen 
west, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, being a part of 
the permanent United States Hot Springs Reservation," sole and 
exclusive jurisdiction over which was ceded to the United States by an 
act of the general assembly of the State of Arkansas, entitled "An 
Act ceding jurisdiction to the United States over a part of the Hot 
Springs Mountain Reservation," approved February twenty-first, 
nineteen hundred and three, which cession is hereby accepted, or 
within such boundaries as may be defined hereafter, shall be under the 
sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and all laws 
applicable to places under such sole and exclusive jurisdiction shall 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 27 

have full force and effect therein: Provided, That nothing in this Act 
shall be so construed as to forbid the service within said boundaries of 
any civil or criminal process of any court having jurisdiction in the 
State of Arkansas; that all fugitives from justice taking refuge within 
said boundaries shall, on due application to the executive of said 
State, whose warrant may lawfully run within said territory for said 
purpose, be subject to the laws which apply to fugitives from justice 
found in the State of Arkansas: And 'provided further, That this Act 
shall not be so construed as to interfere with the right to tax all struc- 
tures and other property in private ownership within the boundaries 
above described, accorded to the State of Arkansas by section five of 
the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-one, entitled "An Act to regulate the granting of leases at'Hot 
Springs, Arkansas, and for other purposes." 

Sec. 2. That said above-described portion of said reservation shall 
constitute a part of the eastern United States judicial district of 
Arkansas, and the district and circuit courts of the United States in 
and for said district shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed 
within said boundaries. 

Sec. 3. That any person who shall, within the said above-mentioned 
tract, commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to or upon any build- 
ing fence, hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, 
garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, 
natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, 
or situated therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 
upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one 
hundred dollars and be adjudged to pay all costs of the proceedings. 

Sec. 4. That any person who shall, except in compliance with such 
rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may deem neces- 
sary, and which he is hereby authorized and directed to make, enter 
or attempt to enter upon said described tract, take, or attempt to take, 
use, or attempt to use, bathe in, or attempt to bathe in water of any 
spring located thereon, or without presenting satisfactory evidence 
that he or she (provided he or she is under medical treatment) is the 
patient of a physician duly registered at the office of the superintend- 
ent of the Hot Springs Reservation as one qualified, under such rules 
which the Secretary of the Interior may have made or shall make, to 
prescribe the waters of the Hot Springs, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine 
of not more than one hundred dollars, and be adjudged to pay all costs 
of the proceedings : Provided, That no physician who shall engage in 
the solicitation of patronage through the medium of drummers, or 
otherwise, shall be or remain thus registered: And provided further, 
That if any person so bathing, or attempting to bathe, or so entering, 
or attempting to enter upon the prescribed tract, shall have the permit 
of a physician, such physician shall be liable to the penalties of this 
section, unless he be regularly registered ; and such person shall not be 
liable to the penalties of this section, unless it shall be made to appear 
that he knew, or had reason to believe, that the physician giving him 
such permit was not regularly registered. 

Sec. 5. That if any act shall be committed within said boundaries 
which would constitute an offense under the municipal ordinances of 
the city of Hot Springs or the laws of the State of Arkansas, but which 
is not prohibited or the punishment of which is not specially provided 



28 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

for by any law of the United States, regulation of the Secretary of the 
Interior, or by this Act, the offender shall be subject to the same pun- 
ishment as the said municipal ordinances of the city of Hot Springs, 
or the laws of the State of Arkansas in force at the time of the commis- 
sion of the offense, may provide for a like offense in the said State, and 
no subsequent repeal of any such law or ordinance shall affect any 
pending prosecution for an offense committed within said boundaries. 

Sec. 6. That such commissioner shall have power, upon sworn com- 
plaint, to issue process in the name of the United States for the arrest 
of any person charged with the doing, otherwise than in compliance 
with the rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, of any 
act with reference to the matters which the Secretary of the Interior 
in section four of this Act is authorized to regulate, or in violation of 
such rules and regulations, or in violation of any provision of this Act, 
or with any misdemeanor or other like offense the punishment pro- 
vided for which does not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars to try the 
person thus charged, and if found guilty, to impose the penalty pre- 
scribed. In all cases of conviction an appeal shall lie from the judg- 
ment of said commissioner to the United States district court for the 
eastern district of Arkansas. The said United States district court 
shall prescribe rules of procedure and practice for said commissioner in 
the trial of cases and with reference to said appeals. 

Sec. 7. That said commissioner shall also have power to issue 
process as hereinbefore provided for the arrest of any person charged 
with the commission, within said boundaries, of any criminal offense 
not covered by the provisions of section six of this Act, to hear the 
evidence introduced, and if he is of opinion that probable cause is 
shown for holding the person so charged for trial, shall cause such 
person to be safely conveyed to a secure place for confinement, within 
the jurisdiction of the United States district court for the eastern dis- 
trict of Arkansas, and certify a transcript of the record of his proceed- 
ings and the testimony in the case to said court, which court shall have 
jurisdiction of the case: Provided, That the said commissioner shall 
grant bail in all cases bailable under the laws of the United States or of 
the State of Arkansas or the ordinances of the city of Hot Springs. 

Sec. 8. That all process issued by the commissioner shall be directed 
to the marshal of the United States for the eastern district of Arkansas, 
but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the 
arrest by any officer of the Government, police of said reservation, 
police officer of the city of Hot Springs, or employee of'the United 
States within said boundaries, without process, of any person taken in 
the act of violating the law or this Act, or doing anything with refer- 
ence to the matters which in section four of this Act the Secretary of 
the Interior is authorized to regulate, except in compliance with such 
rules and regulations, or committing any act in violation of such 
regulations. 

Sec. 9. That the commissioner referred to in this Act and the mar- 
shal of the United States and his deputies in the eastern district of 
Arkansas shall be paid the same fees and compensation as are now 
provided by law for like services in said district. 

Sec. 10. That all fees, costs, and expenses arising in cases under 
this Act and properly chargeable to the Untied States shall be certified, 
approved, and paid as are like fees, costs, and expenses in the courts of 
the United States. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 29 

Sec. 11. That all fines and costs imposed and collected shall be de- 
posited by said commissioner of the United States or the marshal of 
the United States collecting the same with the clerk of the United 
States district court for the judicial district in which said reservation 
may be situated. 

Sec. 12. That all persons who may be imprisoned for nonpayment 
of any fine, or costs, provided for by this Act, or awaiting trial without 
bail, shall be confined in the jail of Pulaski County, at Little Rock, 
Arkansas, or at such place as may be otherwise designated. 

Sec. 13. That upon the conviction of a party upon trial by said 
commissioner, or by said district court, execution of sentence shall be 
in conformity with the laws of the United States, anything in the 
statutes of the State of Arkansas to the contrary notwithstanding. 



ACT OF MAY 23, 1906 (34 STAT., 198). 

AN ACT To change the line of the reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and of 

Reserve avenue. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the line of the Govern- 
ment reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and of Reserve Avenue, 
be changed so as to run from stone monument twenty-six to stone 
monument twenty-eight on a direct line, instead of running from 
hventy-six to twenty-seven and thence to twenty-eight, as it now 
does: Provided, That the tract of land thus excluded from the reser- 
vation by changing the lines as above, be ceded to the city of Hot 
Springs, to become a part of Reserve avenue and to be used for street 
purposes only; to be accepted by the city without change of the 
opposite (southerly) boundary line of said avenue. 



ACT OF MARCH 2, 1907 (34 STAT., 1218). 

AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An Act conferring jurisdiction upon United 
States commissioners over offenses committed in a portion of the permanent Hot 
Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas, " approved April twentieth, nineteen hun- 
dred and four. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Act Numbered 
One hundred and twenty-four, an Act conferring jurisdiction upon 
the United States commissioners over offenses committed in a por- 
tion of the permanent Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas, 
be amended as follows: 

That section six be amended by prefixing the following: 

"That any United States commissioner, duly appointed by the 
United States circuit court for the eastern district of Arkansas, and 
residing in said district, shall have power and jurisdiction to hear 
and act upon all complaints made of any and all violations of this 
Act." 

Sec. 2. That the words "commissioner", "such commissioner", 
"said commissioner", or "the commissioner", whenever they occur 
in said Act be stricken out and the words "any of said commissioners" 
be inserted in lieu thereof. 



30 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

ACT OF LEGISLATURE OF ARKANSAS APPROVED APRIL 30, 1907. 

ACT 236. — AN ACT For the protection of passengers and for the suppression of drum- 
ming and soliciting upon railroad trains and upon the premises of common carriers. 

Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: 

Section I. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, 
except as hereinafter provided in section 2 of this act, to drum or 
solicit business or patronage for any hotel, lodging house, eating house, 
bath house, physician, masseur, surgeon, or other medical practi- 
tioner, on the trains, cars, depots of any railroad or common carrier 
operating or running within the State of Arkansas. 

Any person or persons plying or attempting to ply said vocation 
of drumming or soliciting, except as provided in section 2 of this act, 
upon the trains, cars, or depots of said railroads or common carriers, 
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
hundred dollars for such offense. 

Sec. II. That it shall be unlawful for any railroad or common car- 
rier operating a line within the State of Arkansas knowingly to per- 
mit its trains, cars or depots within the State of Arkansas to be used 
by any person or persons for drumming or soliciting business or pat- 
ronage for any hotel, lodging house, eating house, bath house, physi- 
cian, masseur, surgeon or other medical practitioner, or drumming or 
soliciting for any business or profession whatever, except that it 
may be lawful for railroads or common carriers to permit agents of 
transfer companies on their trains to check baggage or to provide 
transfers for passengers, or for persons or corporations to sell period- 
icals and such other articles as are usually sold by news agencies for 
the convenience and accommodation of said passengers. 

And it shall be the duty of the conductor or person in charge of the 
train or railroad of any common carrier to report to the prosecuting 
attorney any person or persons found violating any of the provisions 
of this act, and upon wilful failure or neglect to report any such per- 
son or persons known to be violating the provisions of this act by 
drumming or soliciting, said conductor or other person in charge of 
such train shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
viction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one 
hundred dollars. 

Sec. III. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act, 
conductors, trainmen or special officers employed by railroads or 
common carriers are hereby required to forbid any violation of this 
act; and, if necessary, they are authorized to call an officer at such 
place where an officer can be had, and to report a violation of this 
act to such officer, whose duty it shall be to arrest the person charged 
with violating this act and to carry him immediately before some 
officer, to be tried according to law. 

Sec. IV. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed, and this act to take effect and be in force from and 
after its passage. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 31 

ORDINANCE OF COUNCIL OF HOT SPRINGS APPROVED 
AUGUST 9, 1907. 

AN ORDINANCE To prevent frauds being committed in the city of Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, upon persons desiring to get the benefit of the baths of the hot waters of 
the United .States Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas. 

Be it Ordained by the Council of the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

Section 1. That any physician in the city of Hot Springs, Arkan- 
sas, not authorized under the rules and regulations of the Secretary 
of the Interior of the United States to prescribe and direct the taking 
of hot-water baths of the hot waters of the United States Hot Springs 
Reservation in Arkansas, who shall accept any person or persons as 
a patient or patients or prescribe for such person or persons for fee or 
reward paid or to be paid, when he knows or has reason to believe 
that said patient or persons desire the benefit of the baths of said hot 
water, without first notifying said person or persons that he is not 
registered and qualified under the rules and regulations of the said 
Secretary of the Interior of the United States to prescribe and give 
directions for the taking of the said baths, and that the person or per- 
sons can not get-hot-water baths at the bathhouses insaidcityif treated 
by said physician, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 
viction in the police court shall be fined not less than twenty-five 
dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

Sec. 2. That any person who shall recommend any person to a 
physician whom he knows is not authorized as such physician to 
prescribe the hot baths of the United States Hot Springs Reserva- 
tion under the rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior 
of the United States when he knows or has reasons to believe said 
person or persons being by him so recommended desire the benefit 
of the said baths, without at the same time notifying such person or 
persons that said physician can not prescribe the said baths to his 
patients and that said person or persons can not get the baths if 
treated by said physician, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction in the police court shall be fined not less than twenty-five 
dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

Sec. 3. That any physician who is not registered and authorized 
to prescribe the hot-water baths of the United States Hot Springs 
Reservation in Arkansas, under the rules and regulations of the 
Secretary of the Interior of the United States, who shall direct their 
patient or patients to represent to the bath-house owners, managers, 
servants, or employees thereof, that they have no physician so as to 
obtain said baths at said bath house or houses, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor and upon conviction in the police court shall be fined 
not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

Sec. 4. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict will) 
this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed, and this ordi- 
nance take effect and be in full force from and after passage. 

Passed August S, 1907. 

Approved August 9, 1907. 

M. IT. Jopd, Mayor. 

Attest : 

Otis Copelin, City Clerk. 



32 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

ORDINANCE OF COUNCIL OF HOT SPRINGS APPROVED JUNE 4, 

i8g5. 

By ordinance approved June 4, 1896, for the better protection of 
public parks of the city of Hot Springs, it is made unlawful for any 
person to cut down, mark, deface or injure any tree or shrub in any 
public park in the city, or who shall carry away or misplace, cut, 
mark, or deface, any seat, or settee or any movable property in any 
public park, or shall habitually lounge, or loaf in any public park of 
this city, or who shall be drunk or intoxicated while in such park, or 
who shall use vulgar or profane language, or who shall make any 
indecent exposure of the person or who shall spit upon the floors or 
walls of any pavilion or other building or on the sidewalks or who 
shall hawk, peddle, or beg, or solicit alms, or who may be offensive 
by reason of loathsome disease. 

United States Reservation policemen are instructed to enforce the 
provisions of this ordinance. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



REGULATIONS APPROVED FEBRUARY i, 1908, FOR THE GOVERN- 
MENT OF ALL BATH HOUSES. 

The Superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation is directed 
to enforce a prompt and faithful compliance with the following rules: 

Rule 1. Bath houses or hotels will be allowed such number of tubs 
as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem proper 
and necessary for the public service and the amount of hot water 
will justify. 

Rule 2. The constant flow of hot water for vapor or other baths, 
even during business hours, or the unnecessary waste of water in any 
manner, is strictly prohibited, and will, if continued after written 
notice from the Superintendent to stop such waste of water, be con- 
sidered by the Department sufficient grounds for the cancellation 
of the lease of such offending lessee. 

Rule 3. Rentals must be paid quarterly in advance, at the office 
of the Superintendent, and if not paid within five days from the 
beginning of each quarter, the supply of water may be cut off. 

Rule 4. The charge for baths at the different bath houses shall 
be at the rates fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and no bath 
tickets shall be sold for more than said rate, and then only to such 
persons as intend to actually use them for bathing. No bath ticket 
shall be sold except at the office of the bath house where the bath 
is to be given, and tickets must show the date when issued, the serial 
number, the number of baths for which issued, the full name of the 
purchaser, and the amount paid therefor. Bath tickets shall be 
redeemable for the same proportionate price for which they were 
sold, when presented by the original purchaser: Provided, That 
when less than seven baths have been taken on any ticket presented 
for redemption, the bath house may charge the rate for single baths 
for the number of baths taken on said ticket. No bath ticket or 
part of a ticket shall be reissued after having been redeemed. The 
issue of complimentary bath tickets must not exceed 5 per cent of 
the number of tickets sold by the bath house during the last fiscal 
year. The renting and selling of bath robes, towels, soap, toilet 
articles, or articles of merchandise in bath houses is prohibited. 

Rule 5. The owners or managers of bath houses receiving water 
from the Hot Springs Reservation, and the employees of any such 
bath house, are absolutely prohibited from either directly or indi- 
rectly reflecting on or questioning the integrity of the hot water 
supply of any Other bath house, or of claiming superiority of its 
own supply of hot water over that furnished from the springs on 
the Reservation to other bath houses. Upon evidence of violation 

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34 BEGULATIONS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

of this rule, the Superintendent shall report the facts, with his rec- 
ommendation, to the Secretary of the Interior, looking to the shut- 
ting off of the water from any bath house or cancelling the lease, 
as the Department may determine. 

Rule 6. Bath house attendants shall be allowed to charge for 
their services not exceeding fifteen cents for a single bath, SI per 
week, or $3 per course of 21 baths, to be collected for the attendant 
by the bath house manager and properly accounted for by him to 
the attendant. The services of the attendants shall include all the 
necessities of the bath, except towels and bath robes, laundering 
bath robes, rubbing mercury, and handling helpless invalids. They 
shall be required to keep themselves in a neat and cleanly condi- 
tion, both in person and in dress, and may be required to make good 
any damage accruing from breakage or neglect of duty. It shall be 
optional with the bather whether he employ an attendant or not. 
Mo person shall be employed or permitted to serve or occupy space 
in any bath house as a mercury rubber, or as a masseur, without 
the approval of the Superintendent first had and obtained; and 
every person so employed or serving shall be subject and amenable 
to the rules and regulations the same as attendants and other bath 
house employees. 

Rule 7. The payment of any sum of money, or anything of value, 
either directly or indirectly, by any bath house owner, manager, 
clerk, or attendant as compensation for drumming customers to 
any bath house, or allowing public drummers, drumming doctors, 
hotel or boarding house proprietors who are drummers, or persons 
who work with them as inside men, to bring persons or show them 
through, or to loiter in or about any bath house, is positively for- 
bidden. Upon evidence of violation of this rule, the Superintendent 
shall report the facts, with his recommendation, to the Secretary of 
the Interior, looking to the shutting off of the water from any bath 
house or cancelling the lease, as the Department may determine. 

Rule 8. The lessee of each bath house shall cause to be kept a full 
and correct register of each bath given, the number and kind of bath 
tickets sold, and the number of complimentary tickets issued each 
day. No person shall be allowed to bathe without a numbered 
ticket being issued and a record of the same being kept and duly 
reported to the Superintendent on the first day of each month as 
paid, complimentary or free baths, together with any information 
he may have showing a violation of the bath house rules and regula- 
tions which may be susceptible of proof. 

Rule 9. All bath houses receiving deposits of jewelry, money, or 
other valuables from bathers must provide means satisfactory to 
the Superintendent of the Reservation for the safe-keeping thereof; 
it is to be understood, however, that the Government assumes no 
responsibility in the premises. All losses must be promptly reported 
to the Superintendent by the bath house manager. 

Rule 10. An applicant for baths who is under medical treatment 
shall not be permitted to bathe in any bath house supplied with 
water from the Hot Springs Reservation, unless said applicant 
presents satisfacton^ evidence that he or she is the patient of a 
physician who is duly registered at the office of the Superintendent 
as qualified to prescribe the waters of the hot springs, and who is 
known not to engage in drumming for custom. The violation of 



REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 35 

this rule by the owner, manager, or any employee of a bath house 
receiving hot water from the Reservation will result in the cutting 
off of the water from the bath house or the cancelling of the lease, 
as the Department may determine. 

Rule 11. Physicians desiring to prescribe the waters of the Hot 
Springs, either internally or through the medium of the baths, must 
first be registered at the office of the Superintendent of the Reser- 
vation. Registration will be accorded only to such physicians as 
are found, by a board designated b}^ the Secretary of the Interior, 
to have proper professional qualifications and character, and who 
do not engage in drumming for custom. No physician who shall 
engage in the solicitation of patronage through the medium of 
drummers, or otherwise, shall be or remain registered. In case 
any person who, in violation of these regulations, bathes or attempts 
to bathe, or enters or attempts to enter upon the Hot Springs Res- 
ervation to bathe, shall have the permit of a physician therefor, 
such physician shall be liable to the penalties provided in the act 
of April 20, 1904, unless he is regularly registered, but the bather 
or the person attempting to bathe, shall not be liable to the penal- 
ties of said act, unless it shall be made to appear that he knew or 
had reason to believe that the physician giving him the permit to 
bathe was not regularly registered. 

Rule 12. Persons violating any of the foregoing regulations 
within the purview of the act of April 20, 1904, entitled "An Act 
conferring jurisdiction upon United States commissioners over 
offenses committed in a portion of the permanent Hot Springs 
Mountain Reservation, Arkansas," and the act of March 2, 1907, 
amendatory thereof, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
be subjected on conviction to the payment of a fine, as provided in 
said act of April 20, 1904, of not exceeding $100, and be adjudged 
to pay all costs of the proceeding. 

Rule 13. All bath houses shall be kept in a neat, cleanly, and 
sanitary condition, and all sewage and waste water properly con- 
ducted away, and all under drainage kept in perfect order. The 
water-closets' shall have sufficient and free connection with the 
public sewers and be kept in the best order and with the best 
plumbing furnishings and appliances. Lessees of bath houses on 
the permanent Reservation shall, under the direction of the Super- 
intendent, cultivate and maintain a part of the bath house park in 
front of their respective bath houses, the space for each to cultivate 
to be allotted by the Superintendent. 

Rule 14. Each bath house manager, clerk, and attendant shall 
be required to have a full and ccmplete understanding of the Bath 
House Rules and Regulations before entering upon his duties. 

The Superintendent is authorized to require the discharge of any 
bath house manager, clerk, attendant, mercury rubber, or masseur, 
for bath house drumming or refusing or neglecting to carry out the 
Bath House Rules and Regulations according to the true intent and 
meaning thereof. Any person discharged for cause from a bath 
house, or removed at the request of the Superintendent, shall not 
be again employed by the same or any other bath house, or per- 
mitted to render service in any bath house, without the written 
consent of the Superintendent. Managers must promptly report to 
the Superintendent the name of any person so removed. 



36 REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

A neatly framed copy of the Rules and Regulations now in force, 
together with the prices of baths and attendants' fees, both sepa- 
rately and combined, printed in large black type on white card- 
board, shall be conspicuously posted in the office of each bath house. 



APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF PHYSICIANS. 

To the board of physicians appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to pass upon the 
qualifications and character of physicians to prescribe the waters from the Hot 
Springs Reservation : 

1. I was born at 

2. My preliminary education was obtained 



(.State common school or collegiate). 



If the latter, name of college and date of degree. 

3. I graduated in medicine from on the day 

Give name of college. 



of 1 

4. My State certificate was issued . 



When and where. 
5. From what county issued 



6. 11 



County 
State . . 



American Medical Association? Special 

Yes or No. 



7. I have practiced at my present location years, and have practiced at the 

following places for the years named 



8. I now hold or have held the following positions 

Give places of trust or honor hpld now 



or in the past, prizes received and dispensary orcollege appointments. 

9. I am 

State 'general practitioner" or specialty, if any. 

10. Do you employ drummers to solicit business? 



Yes or no. 
11. Do you pay commissions on any of your professional business, either directly or 
indirectly? 



REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 37 

12. Have you paid commissions on any of your professional business or given anything 
of value either directly or indirectly, for such purposes, during the past two 

years? 

Yes or no. 

13. If so, when did you quit, and why? 



Date. 

14. If registered will you faithfully observe the rules and regulations approved by the 

Sei tc i a ry of the Interior regarding the use of the waters of the Hot Springs? 

Yes or no. 

15. My office is street; residence street; 

telephone number Respectfully, 



Reported and examined 190. 



REGULATIONS APPROVED JULY 7, 1900, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 
THE FREE BATH HOUSE. 

These baths are provided and maintained by the United States 

Eursuant to the requirements of the act of Congress approved Decem- 
er 16, 1878 (20 Stat., 258), for the use of the indigent only; neither 
the manager nor attendants are authorized to supply them to others. 

The manager of the free bath house is required to enforce a strict 
observance of the following rules and regulations: 

Rule 1. No baths will be supplied except on written applications 
made on blanks furnished at the office of the bath house, making full 
answers to the questions therein propounded, then if the applicant is 
found to be indigent (in accordance with the common acceptation of 
the word), the manager will issue a ticket good for 21 baths, which 
may be reissued on the same application if necessary. 

Rule 2. Persons using the free baths are required to maintain 
quiet and orderly deportment while in or about the bath house, to 
abstain from the use of tobacco, either by chewing or smoking, while 
in the pool rooms, dressing rooms, or office, not to scatter rags or 
paper on the floor, or to loiter in or about the building after bathing. 

Rule 3. The wanton exposure of person or entering any of the 
front rooms in a nude state, the use of loud, vulgar, or profane lan- 
guage, the use of rags, paper, soap, or any foreign substance in the 
pool rooms is positively prohibited. 

Rule 4. Persons using these baths are not allowed to stand or sit 
on or in any way interfere with the water pipes or valves or to stand 
on the chairs or benches. All persons entering the house are required 
to clean their feet at the door and avoid as much as possible bringing 
dirt or mud on the floors. Boys over five years of age will not be 
allowed in the female department during bathing hours. 

Rule 5. Any willful or repeated violation of these rules, or any 
disorderly or contemptuous conduct, will subject the persons so 
offending to suspension or expulsion, at the discretion of the Super- 
intendent of the Reservation. 



38 REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

Rule 6. Neither the manager nor the Government attendants 
shall be allowed to receive or become responsible for any valuables 
or to charge any fees for any service rendered to bathers which comes 
within the direct line of their duty. 

Rule 7. The manager is required to enforce all the foregoing rules 
and to maintain good order in and about the bath house, to see that 
all indigent persons applying are supplied with baths, and to make 
a written report to the Superintendent each month on blank forms 
supplied for that purpose. He may reject any application for free 
baths if he has reason to believe the applicant has made false answers 
in his written application, and the aggrieved may appeal to the Super- 
intendent of the Reservation. 



APPLICATION FOR BATHS AT THE GOVERNMENT FREE BATH 

HOUSE. 

Department op the Interior, 

hot springs reservation. 

Persons desiring to use the free baths are required to answer the following questions, 
in writing, and sign the same, giving full name: 

Name Town 

County State 

Present address in Hot Springs: Street , No 

Native of what country Age years. Have you a family? 

How many in family? Occupatii m Are you able to 

work? Are you empl< »yed now? By whom? 

In what capacity? Do you wish to bathe for your health? With 

what disease are you afflicted? How long afflicted? 

Are you under treatment of a physician at Hot Springs? If so, give his name 

and address 

Have you ever served in the United States military or naval service? 

Do you own any real estate? What is the value of your personal property? $ 

How much money have you? $ The act of Congress approved December 

16, 1878 (20 Stat., 258), restricts the use of free baths to the indigent; in other words, 
to persons who are poor, needy, in want, or without means of comfortable subsistence. 
Do you regard yourself as an indigent person? 

Persons accepting and using these baths are required to report to the manager once 
each week whether they are being benefited by the baths or not, and also when they 
discontinue bathing. 

[seal.] 

Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
, 190... 



GENERAL LEGISLATION. 

SECTION 5391, REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Prosecutions under State Laws where no Federal Laws are Applicable. 

If any offense be committed in any place which has been or may 
hereafter be, ceded to and under the jurisdiction of the United 
States, which offense is not prohibited, or the punishment thereof is 
not specially provided for, by any law of the United States, such 
offense shall be liable to, and receive, the same punishment as the 
laws of the State in which such place is situated, now in force, pro- 
vide for the like offense when committed within the jurisdiction of 
such State; and no subsequent repeal of any such State law shall 
affect any prosecution for such offense in any court of the United 
States. 



ACT OF JULY 7, 1898 (30 STAT., 717). 

AN ACT To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the 
United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes. 

Sec. 2. That when any offense is committed in any place, jurisdic- 
tion over which has been retained by the United States or ceded to 
it by a State, or which has been purchased with the consent of a State 
for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other needful 
building or structure, the punishment for which offense is not provided 
for by any law of the United States, the person committing such offense 
shall, upon conviction in a circuit or district court of the United 
States for the district in which the offense was committed, be liable 
to and receive the same punishment as the laws of the State in which 
such place is situated now provide for the like offense when com- 
mitted within the jurisdiction of such State, and the said courts are 
hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose; and no subsequent 
repeal of any such State law shall affect any such prosecution. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1875 (18 STAT, 481). 
Cutting Timber on Reserved Lands, Destroying Fences, etc. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person 
or persons shall knowingly and unlawfully cut, or shall knowingly aid, 

39 



40 LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 

assist, or be employed in unlawfully cutting, or shall wantonly destroy 
or injure, or procure to be wantonly destroyed or injured, any timber- 
tree or any shade or ornamental tree, or any other kind of tree, stand- 
ing, growing, or being upon any land of the United States, which, in 
pursuance of law, have been reserved, or which have been purchased 
by the United States for any public use, every such person or persons 
so offending, on conviction thereof before any circuit or district court 
of the United States, shall, for every such offense, pay a. fine not 
exceeding $500, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months. 

Sec. 2. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlaw- 
fully break or destroy any fence, wall, hedge, or gate inclosing any 
lands of the United States, which have, in pursuance of any law, been 
reserved or purchased by the United States for any public use, ever} 1 " 
such person so offending, on conviction, shall, for every such offence, 
pay a fine not exceeding $200, or be imprisoned not exceeding six 
months. 

Sec. 3. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlaw- 
fully break, open, or destroy any gate, fence, hedge, or wall inclosing 
any lands of the United States, reserved or purchased as aforesaid, 
and shall drive any cattle, horses, or hogs upon the lands aforesaid 
for the purpose of destroying the grass or trees on the said grounds, 
or where they may destroy the said grass or trees, or if any such per- 
son or persons shall knowingly permit his or their cattle, horses, or 
hogs to enter through any of said inclosures upon the lands of the 
United States aforesaid, where the said cattle, horses, or hogs may or 
can destroy the grass or trees or other property of the United States 
on the said land, every such person or persons so offending, on con- 
viction, shall pay a fine not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned not 
exceeding twelve months. 

Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to 
unsurveyed public lands and to public lands subject to preemption 
and homestead laws, or to public lands subject to an act to promote 
the development of the mining resources of the United States, 
approved May 10, 1872. 



ACT OF JUNE 3, 1878 (20 STAT.. 89), AS AMENDED BY SEC. 2, OF 
THE ACT OF AUGUST 4, 1892 (27 STAT., 348). 

Cutting Timber on Lands of the United States. 



Sec. 4. After the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to cut, or 
cause or procure to be cut, or wantonly destroy, any timber growing 
on any lands of the United States in public-land States, or remove, 
or cause to be removed, any timber from said public lands with in- 
tent to export or dispose of the same ; and no owner, master, or con- 
signee of any vessel, or owner, director, or agent of any railroad, shall 
knowingly transport the same, or any lumber manufactured there- 
from; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined for 
every such offense a sum not less than one hundred nor more than 
one thousand dollars. 



LAWS RELATING TO HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 41 

ACT OF JUNE 10, 1896 (29 STAT., 343). 

Changing or Removing Survey Marks. 

AN ACT Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian 
Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and for other purposes. 

Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, deface, 
change, or remove to another place any section corner, quarter-sec- 
tion corner, or meander post on any Government line of surve}*, or 
to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a 
Government survey, or to deface, change, or remove any monument 
or bench mark of any Government survey. That any person who 
shall offend against any of the provisions of this paragraph shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any 
court shall be fined not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or be 
imprisoned not more than one hundred days. All the fines accruing 
under this paragraph shall be paid into the Treasury, and the in- 
former, in each case of conviction, shall be paid the sum of twenty- 
five dollars. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1905 (33 STAT., 700). 

Arrests by National Park and Forest Employees. 

AX ACT For the protection of the public forest reserves and national parks of the 

United States. 

All persons employed in the forest-reserve and national-park service 
of the United States shall have authority to make arrests for the 
violation of the laws and regulations relating to the forest reserves 
and national parks, and any person so arrested shall be taken before 
the nearest United States commissioner, within whose jurisdiction 
the reservation or national park is located, for trial; and upon sworn 
information by any competent person any United States commissioner 
in the proper jurisdiction shall issue process for the arrest of any 
person charged with the violation of said laws and regulations; but 
nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the arrest 
by any officer of the United States, without process, of any person 
taken in the act of violating said laws and regulations. 



STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOT SPRINGS 
RESERVATION FROM MARCH S, 1STT, TO DECEMBER 
31, 1907. 



TITLE: PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT HOT SPRINGS RESER- 
VATION." 

Revenue Fund, derived from water and ground rents and sales of 
lots and improvements, as provided by act of March 3, 1877, treated 
by Treasury Department, for bookkeeping purposes, as Indefinite 
Appropriation : 



1877& 


$5, 035. 00 

2,881.88 

2,774.03 

5, 820. 47 

37, 323. 70 

13, 442. 94 

30, 944. 07 

4, 996. 85 

4, 705. 00 

4, 705. 00 

7,241.40 

12, 490. 00 

13, 090. 00 

19, 682. 00 

59,282.50 

15, 798. 12 


1894 


$16, 780. 00 


1878 


1895 


18, 305. 00 


1879 


1896 


16,125.88 


1880 


1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

1905 

1906 

1907 

1908 (half ) 


18, 000. 00 


1881 

1882 

1883 


18,471.25 
18, 580. 00 
18,670.00 


1S84 


18,220.00 


1885 


18, 235. 00 


1886 : 


18, 120. 00 


1887 


18, 430. 00 


1888 


19, 330. 00 


1889 


19, 748. 33 


1890 


20, 165. 00 


1891 


10. 450. 00 


1892. 


Total 




1893 


507, 843. 42 







SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS FROM REVENUE FUND. 

Improvement of Whittington Lake Reserve from proceeds from sale of 
lands, included in above fund, 1892. & (Sundry civil act of August 5, 
1892) c $30, 000. 00 

To repay expenditures upon a sewer, 1896. (Act of May 1, 1896) c 930. 00 

Total 30. 930. 00 



TITLE: IMPROVEMENT HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION." 

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS FROM REVENUE FUND. 

Improvement of Hot Springs Creek, 1883. b (Sundry civil act of August 

7, 1882) c $33, 744. 78 

This amount accrued to the revenue fund from operation of the bath houses by the 
Court of Claims receiver in 1878. 



Designations given on books of Treasury Department. 
f> Years scheduled on books of Treasury Department, 
c Without year. 



42 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 43 

TITLE: SALARIES AND EXPENSES HOT SPRINGS COMMISSION. 

• Salaries and expenses Hot Springs Commission, 1877. b (Sundry civil act 

of Maich.3', 1877) c$27, 500.00 

Same as above, 1878. ( Deficiency act of December 15, 1877 1 c 15, 000. 00 

Same as above, 1879. (Act of December 16, 1878) c 27, 500. 00 

Same as above, 1879. (Deficiency act of March 3, 1879) c 12, 000. 00 

Total d 82. 000. 00 

TITLE: PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT HOT SPRINGS RESER- 
VATION." 

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS FROM MONEYS IN TREASURY NOT OTHERWISE 

APPROPRIATED. 

Improvement of Hot Springs Creek, 1885.5 (Sundry civil act of July 7. 

1884) *. .'. . .« $75, 000. 00 

Same as above, 1880. (Sundry civil act of March 3. 1885 1 f 8, 000. 00 

Same as above, 1887. (Sundry civil act of August 4. 1886)." « 20, 000. 00 

Reservoirs, pumps, piping, and improvement of the free bath house, 1889. 
(Sundry civil act of October 2, 1888) ^36. 000. 00 

Improvement of the free bath house, 1890. (Deficiencv act of April 4. 

1890) c 3, 200.00 

For mains, pipes, pumping engine, etc., 1891. (Deficiencv act of Septem- 
ber 30 , 1890) : c 5, 000. 00 

Construction of roads, 1892. (Sundry civil act of March 3. 1891) « 5, 000. 00 

Total 152, 200. 00 

TITLE: HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION." 

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS FROM MONEYS IN TREASURY NOT OTHERWISE 

APPROPRIATED. 

Repairs to roads, drives, etc., and remodeling the free bath house, 1903. b 

(Sundry civil act of June 28. 1902) c$47, 562. 00 

Repairs to roads, etc., and storage reservoir, 1904. (Sundry civil act of 

March 3, 1903) .' e30, 500. 00 

Reimbursement of disbursing officer, 1904. (Deficiencv act of February 

18, 1904) '. e 500. 00 

Installation of electric motor for the free bath house, 1904. (Deficiency 

act of April 27, 1904) * 1. 550. 00 

For gutters on mountain mads. 1905. (Sundry civil act of April 28, 1904).. ^8.000.00 
Filling lakes in Whittington Park, 1906. (Sundrv civil -act of March 3. 

1905 ) ' 6, 000 . 00 

Total '. 94, 112. 00 

TITLE: CLAIMS FOR CONDEMNATION OF BUILDINGS, HOT SPRINGS 

RESERVATIONS 

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS (INDEFINITE) FROM MONEYS IN TREASURY NOT OTHERWISE 
APPROPRIATED (SUNDRY CIVIL ACT OF MARCH 8, 1901). 

1902 & c $26, 385. 45 

1903 c 18, 372. 07 

1904 c 3, 500. 00 



Total 48. 257. 52 

Up to December 31, 1907, in addition to the above appropriations, 
there has been expended the sum of $219,933.91, under the direction 
of the War Department, upon the Army and Navy Hospital, located 
on Hot Springs Reservation. 

a Designations given on books of Treasury Department. 
b Years scheduled on books of Treasury Department. 
c Without year. 

d Rei ml iu rial ilc from fund arising from sale of Hot Springs lots, but trea jury Department 

as a direct appropriation. 
< Limited to fiscal years. 



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APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION. 



RECAPITULATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, 

1877-1908. 



Titles of appropriations. 


Indefinite 
appropria- 
tions from 
revenue 
fund. 


Specific 
appropria- 
tions from 

revenue 
fund. 


Specific 
appropria- 
tions from 
Treasury. 


Expendi- 
tures. 


Surplus 
(reverted 
to Treas- 
ury). 


Balance 
December 
31, 1907. 


Protection and improve- 
ment Hot Springs Reser- 


$507,843.42 


$30, 930. 00 
33, 744. 78 


$152, 200. 00 


a$682,S93.10 

33, 744. 78 
92, 743. 34 

72,675.20 
48, 257. 52 


$953. 88 


$7, 126. 44 


Improvement Hot Springs 








94,112.00 
82,000.00 

48,257.52 


1,368.66 
9,324.80 




Salaries and expenses Hot 








Claims for condemnation of 
buildings. Hot Springs 


















Total 


507,843.42 


64,674.78 


376, 569. 52 


930, 313. 94 


11,647.34 


I' 7, 126. 44 









Total revenues, $572,518.20. 

Total revenues and appropriations $949, 087. 72 

Total expenditures, surplus, and balance 949,087.72 

a Amount represents lumped expenditures. 

b This is on the revenue fund, and represents the Treasury balance. Cash in the hands of disbursing 
officers on December 31, 1907, amounted to $501.87, making the exact balance to the credit of the fund 
$7,628.31. 

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